Anya Kamenetz, author, Generation Debt: Why Now Is A Terrible Time To Be Young

25-year-old Pulitzer Prize nominee Anya Kamenetz is worried about her peers, and herself. In her new book Generation Debt: Why Now Is A Terrible Time To Be Young, the Village Voice columnist outlines the key factors damning her age bracket: student loans with exorbitant interest rates, dead-end, low-paying and temporary jobs, lack of health insurance, Social Security instability, and media, culture and families who view her generation as lazy and apathetic. But, according to Kamenetz, all is not lost, and here she emails Gothamist about not hating baby boomers, activism, job prospects, student loans, collegiate inequality, the state of post-Katrina New Orleans (her hometown), and her hopes for the future. http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/02/02/anya_kamenetz_a_1.php